Note 1. Shelley. From Mont Blanc. This poem is difficult and obscure. Briefly, the dizzy ravine of the Arve is compared with the mind of man, wherethrough, as a river, the Power or the Universe of things flows. The human mind is full of that unresting sound, and the smaller streams that swell the torrent are likened to the spontaneous thoughts of the mind. Later (Some say that dreams) it is questioned whether there be not something great and exterior to the human mind, as M. Blanc is to the Arve ravine (cp. Prom. ii. 3); and M. Blanc is used to typify that Power. With this explanation my selection gives all that I need, and may perhaps be more easily intelligible than the whole poem. But for such faith seems to mean If only for. I have repunctuated Ghosts of all things that are. [back]